Mike Fiala/Newsmakers
ARIZONA SENATOR and Republican presidential hopeful John McCain waves
to the press after casting his ballot in the Arizona GOP primary at the
Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix on Tuesday.
McCain takes
two primaries
DETROIT (AP) - John McCain
thumped George W. Bush in a two
state sweep Tuesday night, rallying a
“new McCain majority” of indepen
dents and Democrats in Michigan and
winning his home state of Arizona to
seize momentum for a two-week blitz
of Republican primaries.
“As I look more electable, we’ll
start drawing more Republicans,”
McCain said in an interview with The
Associated Press. “What I believe we
are assembling is the new McCain
majority.”
McCain received just one-fourth
of die GOP vote in Michigan.
Humbled by defeat,.the Texas
governor said, “This is a marathon,
and I’m going to be in it all the way to
the end - and some primaries you win
and sometimes you don’t.”
McCain’s is the latest victory in a
see-sawing Republican nomination
race. The Arizonan won New
Hampshire’s leadoff primary in a
landslide, lost the follow-up show
down in South Carolina and won
Michigan by a narrow margin.
In each case, Bush and McCain
forged mirror-image coalitions: Bush
with an overwhelming majority of
bedrock Republicans and McCain
reaching outside the party for a simi
lar-sized force of Democrats and
independents.
Operi to all comers, Michigan’s
primary actually drew more non
Republicans than Republicans.
Bush supporters bitterly dis
missed McCain’s victory.
“John McCain isn’t party-build
ing, he’s party-borrowing,” said three
term Michigan Gov. John Engler, who
accused tne senator of “renting
Democrats” for the night. Engler had
promised to carry Michigan for Bush
and took blahie for the defeat.
—In Michigan, with 80 percent of
the precincts reporting, McCain had
560,684 votes, or 50 percent, and
Bush had 494,731 votes, or 44 per
cent.
Former ambassador Alan Keyes
had 5 percent.
—In Arizona, with 69 percent of
the precincts reporting, McCain had
161,770 votesl or 60 percent, and
Bush had 96,473 votes, or 36 percent.
Keyes had 4 percent.
McCain won all of Arizona’s 30
delegates with his victory there.
His statewide victory in Michigan
earned him 10 at-large delegates,
increasing his overall total to 54.
Shuttle returns
with planet maps
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
(AP) - Space shuttle Endeavour and
its crew of six returned to Earth on
Tuesday with more than a week's
worth of radar images that will be
transformed into die finest maps of.
the planet.
Commander Kevin Kregel guid
ed the shuttle down through a clear
sky moments after sunset. Gusty
winds at the runway had forced him
to make an extra swing around
Earth, delaying the homecoming by
an hour and a half.
During their 11 -day voyage,
Endeavour’s astronauts worked in
round-the-clock shifts to keep two
large radar antennae running - one
in the shuttle cargo bay and one on
the end of a 197-foot mast.
The method is expected to pro
duce 3-D maps of Earth’s peaks and
valleys.
The radar mapped 43.5 million
square miles of Earth’s terrain at
least twice, just 2.5 million square
miles shy of NASA’s original goal.
The surveyed land stretched as far
north as British Columbia and as far
soiltiras€~ape Horn and represented
three-quarters of the world’s terrain.
A faulty thruster on the end of
the radar mast forced the crew to use
extra shuttle fuel to steady the mast,
the longest rigid structure ever
deployed in space. To save fuel, the
astronauts had to cut short their
mapping by 13 hours.
NASA’s first order of business
involved unloading the more than
300 digital tapes containing all the
radar data.The tapes will be flown
to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in
Pasadena, Calif.
Scientists will keep the originals
in humidity- and temperature-con
trolled chambers.
“We’re really going to baby
these things, obviously, because
they’re our crown jewels,” said
Michael Kobrick, a scientist in
charge of the project.
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reformist liberal agenda
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■ The plan, which
expands press freedoms,
will meet opposition by
conservative council.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - With all
indications that hard-liners will lose
control of Iran’s parliament, the tri
umphant reformists presented a leg
islative agenda Tuesday with a priori
ty on expanding press freedoms and
lifting a ban on foreign television
broadcasts.
But it remained to be seen
whether hard-liners will find a way to
block those initiatives. The conserva
tive Guardians Council can veto all
legislation passed by parliament, and
supreme leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, the main backer of the
conservative camp, has final say in
all matters.
Iranians expressed their desire for
greater political and social freedoms
in Friday’s election for the Majlis, or
parliament, by overwhelmingly
choosing members of reformist
groups like the Iran Islamic
Participation Front, led by President
Mohammad Khatami’s brother.
The reformist coalition has won
141 seats, including 109 by the
Participation Front, and appeared
poised to have a majority in the 290
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were to be declared later Tuesday in
Tehran, with reformists expected to
win almost all of thetn. Hard-liners
have won 44 seats, independents have
won 10, and 65 will be decided in
runoff elections.
Mohammadreza Khatami, the
head of the Participation Front, said
he is confident that haird-liners will
not risk angering a tnajority of
Iranians by using the powers they still
have to block reforms.
“What is important is the rule of
law and judgment of the people, and
the election clarified the desires of
people,” he said.
Iran’s remarkably free press and
live broadcasts of parliamentary pro
ceedings also could keep conserva
tives from resorting to heavy-handed
methods.
Hard-liners have said little as
election returns were counted, but at
least one conservative lawmaker in
the departing parliament indicated
that they will accept defeat graceful
ly
“We will not change our princi
ples and positions, but it is natural
that we should reconsider our poli
cies and methods,” Mohammadreza
Bahonar was quoted as saying by the
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But hard-liners had been far from
resigned as the public mood became
increasingly clear in the months
before the election. The hard-liners -
who control the judiciary and other
key institutions, such as radio and
television stations and the armed
forces - shut down outspoken news
papers and jailed reformists.
In July, police and vigilantes raid
ed a Tehran University dormitory
after students protested the closure of
a moderate newspaper. The raid,
which left one person dead and 20
injured, triggered the worst unrest in
Iran in two decades.
Rogue Intelligence Ministry
agents believed to be hard-line loyal
ists also have been arrested in the
1998 killings of dissident intellectu
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■ Washington
Clinton’s plan may cut
hospital medical mistakes
WASHINGTON (AP) -
President Bill Clinton wants to
require fuller accounting of deadly
mistakes occurring daily in
America’s hospitals, but skeptical
senators said Tuesday his plan
lacks details and the money to
make it work.
“This is a worthy endeavor,”
Clinton said as he predicted bipar
tisan support for a national plan to
cut medical mistakes.
At the same time, he tried to
convince doctors and hospitals
that reporting serious problems
need not lead to more malpractice
lawsuits.
Clinton wants a nationwide
system to report and analyze med
ical mistakes, similar to the air
lines’ reporting program for avia
tion accidents and safety risks.
■ Washington
Sexual slavery considered
favored illegal trade activity
WASHINGTON (AP) - With
as many as 2 million women
worldwide forced into sexual slav
ery, the sex trade seems to have
replaced narcotics as the favored
illegal trade activity, White House
officials said at a Senate hearing
Tuesday.
Harold Koh, assistant
Secretary of State for democracy,
human rights and labor, said inter
national criminals are moving
away from “guns and drugs” to
marketing women..,..
u “There are weaker restraints
and growing demand,” Koh told
the Senate Foreign Relations sub
committee on Near Eastern and
Southern Asian Affairs.
■ Missouri
Auto theft leads to death
of child dragged by seat belt
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP)
- A child who became tangled in a
seat belt outside his mother’s car
when the vehicle was stolen died
Tuesday after being dragged for
miles at speeds up to 80 mph.
The boy was dragged for five
or six miles along the highway
until the driver pulled onto another
road, police said.
Three other vehicles followed
behind.
When the suspect stopped at a
red light, the three vehicles
blocked him in. The man tried to
flee but was wrestled to the ground
by the motorists.
The boy, whose name was not
released but whom police said was
about 6 or 7 years old, had been
left in the running vehicle while
his mother ran into a store to get a
sandwich.
■ Florida
Florida votes to ban college
race, gender preferences
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -
Gov. Jeb Bush and Florida’s inde
pendently elected Cabinet voted
Tuesday to ban race and gender
preferences in college admissions,
a major part of the governor’s plan
to end affirmative action.
The Republican governor and
the Cabinet voted 4-2 to stop con
sidering race and gender as factors
in admission. Bush’s new “One
Florida” plan promises that stu
dents who graduate in the top 20
percent of their high school class
and complete a college preparato
ry curriculum will get into at least
one of the 10 state universities.
